Bearing construction



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uNirsos'rAri-z s: PATENTQTOFFICET I BEARING Q v I I Burr w. Mantle, Pittstord, N. Y., asslgnor to American Brake Shoe Company, a corporation of Delaware '-0riginalapplication May 25, 194g, Serial No.

- 444,372. Divided and this application March 29, 1943, Serial No. 481,038

2' Claims. (cl. cos-237) My invention relates to a bearing construction. for. one reason or another. Most of them re-. Reference is made'to my copending application, quire considerable and costly machining of the Serial No. 444,372, filed May 25, 1942, of which parts and result in a bearing surface which is v this application 'is a. division. While the prinnot smooth, continuous and unbroken throughciple's of my invention will be described in con- I out its annular extent. Moreover, some of the nection with the making of a bearing fora con- I above mentioned methods necessitate excessive necting rod, the invention or at least most of handlin of the parts, particularly due to the the features thereof, has wider application and act that the cap and the rod must be separated may be employed in making bearingsgenerally, and reassembled several times during the process v and particularly in making those bearing which 10 of manufacture.

must be made in two parts for thepurpose of An object of ,my invention is to provide a enabling the bearing to be encircled about a? bearing construction which, when' it becomes 'shaft or other cooperating element. worn, may be readily adjusted and taken up and In providing a two part bearing for a machine in which provision, is made for enabling a cold element, such as the bearing located at the crank 18 flow of the bearing metal during the application 1 end of a connecting rod, a number of methods of pressure on the,bearing as'the bearing is beof'manufacture are in common use. 'Some maning taken up. ui'acturers prefer to provide the bearing cavity Other objects and advantages of my invention with separate preformed bearing shells lined, for will be set forth in the appended claims and example, with Babbitt metal. Others prefer to Q will clearly appear from the following descrip cast or spin the bearing metal into, the bore 01' tion, when'talten in connection with the accomthe connecting rod. panying drawing, inwhich: One conventional method of ibabbitti'ng the T Fig. 1 isa plan view of the crank end 01 a crankend of a connecting rod is to separate connecting rod employing the bearing of and babbitt the bearing cavityof the rod proper and II made by the method' of my invention, showing the bearingcavity oi the cap., The surfaces are the parts a they appear prior to breaking the {then scraped or 'cleaned. After the rod and cap bearing-y Y "are bolted together the necessary machine work Fig. 2 is a viewtaken substantially. on the line .may .be done. This methodhas the advantage 2-2 of Fig; 1,- also showing the crank end of that it is unnecessary to cut the'babbitt at the 30 the connecting rod prior to breaking the bearrod and cap intersection since these parts are ing; 1 g I separately cast. However, this advantage is ac- Fla 3 i a V w similar to Fig. i with the bolts -companied'by the disadvantage,- among other between-the. cap and the rod removed, with the things, that two casting operations; are required; bearing, broken and the cap and rod separated; Inother known methods 01' babbitting'the'coin- '85, Fig. '4 is a view taken substantially on the plete'annular bearlngis .i'ormed in one operaline 4--4'of Fig. 3; tion. This is accomplished either by spinning Fig. 5 is a view similar to'Fig. 4jshowing the the babbitt into the bearing cavity while rotatcap reassembled with respect to the rodand with lag the red at a s table speed, or byIproviding the line of bearing break somewhat exaggerated the rod with a fixture, part of which constitutes '4 forthe purpose oi. illustration; M

a mold and pouring the Babbitt metal intothe- Fig.- 6 is a perspective view showing a part of mold thus formed. .While the bearing may be the cap of theconnecting rod.- i'plit by employing a shim orpartition ither I The principles of my invention are applicable when the bearing is spun orcast, frequently the I o arjns ner l nd P i larly to that time rod and the cabportions of the bearing are-d1.- .46 of hearing which, is made in-two separable parts vided. by sawing the bearing after "the bearing, .fnrthe pu poses enablinsthe a in to beenmetal has solidified. Cutting the babbitt at the circled abouta shaft, crank or other cooperating. intersection of the cap and rod-not-only' requires member: For purposes of illustration, and not... additional and costly machining operations, biit' I by way of. limitation, the invention is described also results in breaks in the continuity of. the t0 herein in connection with the-manufacture of'a bearingsurfacealongfthe-lines of sawing. This f bearing'i'or'the crank end of a connecting rod. causes breaks in the oil fllm'. on thebearing, The connecting rod or pitman, as shown in the thereby reducing the: allowable bearing ressure g drawing, 'comprises a wrist pinend I 6 (Fig. 7) nintherod'. andacran'kend or head l'l'which are Joined by Alljof theabove. methods are objectionable 63 ,a connectlne piece or shank it. The wrls n necting rod illustrated inthe drawing is a forging but this fact is, of course, immaterial to the invention.

The connecting rod head comprises two major parts, a rod proper part 22 and a cap part 23. In the preferred practice the rod, after bolt openings are bored as shown, is; sawcut along a plane 24 which preferably extends through the axis 26 of the'bore 2|. This enables the parts to be encircled about a shaft where it is notfeasible to slip the connecting rod-endwise onto the shaft. The rod part 22 is threaded, as shown at 21, for the reception of bolts 28 employed for the purpose of rigidly clamping the cap with respect to the connecting rod proper.

After the above mentioned operations have I been completed the cap and rod are bolted together preparator to pouring the crank end bearing. One of the purposes of my invention is to avoid the necessity, duringthe making of the bearing and the machining of the parts. of removing the bolts 28 and taking the connecting rod head apart. With my method the parts do not have to be separated except when the connecting rod is to be assembled with respect to its cooperating shaft. This results in an appreciable saving in production time. The bore 2|, prior to pouring the bearing metal, is preferably tinned to enable the bearing metal to. more readily bond with the metal of the connecting the centers of these openings. substantially parallel to the line of separation of the cap and connecting rod proper but is, in the preferred form of the invention, slightly out of coincidence therewith for a purpose which will later appear.

* The babbitt breaks off to form jagged edges across both sides of the bearing, as illustrated at 88 in Figs. 4, 5, and 6; These jagged edges are precisely complementary to each other so that when the bearing parts are fitted together a perfect contact is made and only an almost invisible line of break exists. In the drawing for purposes of illustration, I have exaggerated the lines of break. However, when the parts are placed together the bearing surface is smooth and for all practical purposes unbroken. Since substantially perfect. contact between the broken parts rod. While tinning is not entirely necessary with a forging, it is the usualpractice to use some material which will serve to provide a better bond for the bearing metal may be used but I prefer to use the conmetal. Any suitable bearing" ventional bearing metal alloy known as Babbitt metal.

For the purpose of carrying out the novel method of my invention, 1 have developed a novel babbitting fixture, the details of which are shown and described in my above mentioned copending application;- While other babbitting fixtures might be employed, I have found the particular fixture to be extremely convenient to use and particularly adapted to high speed production.

After removal from the babbitting fixture the rod isplaced in a high speed boring machine and both bearings accurately bored in one clamping of the rod, the taper of the crank bearing being removed in this boring operation. The rod, after inspection, is then ready for assembly on the machine with which it is to be, used. I

In the assembly of the connecting rod with respect to its shaft or crank it is for the first time necessary to remove the cap from the rod. This is an important advantage in my method of 'babbitting for the reasonthat considerable time, .in most of the conventional methods of babbitting, is lost due to the fact that'the cap must be removed and reassembled with respect to the connecting-rod several times during the course of manufacture. After the removal of the bolts the cap is broken off the rod, either by a sudden jar or by holding the cap in a vise and pushing sidewardly on the rod. .Breaking of the bearing is facilitated due to the fact that my method of bearing production leaves openings 88 in the body of the bearing. These openings weaken the bearing in a plane substantially passing through of the bearing is made, the oil film on the bearing is in no way broken and the allowable bearing pressure is substantially that which would,

be permitted with a solid bearing.

One important feature of my invention lies in the fact that the jagged edges 86 (Fig. 6) lie below the machined surfaces 87 of the cap due to the fact that the plane of the openings 88 formed by the pins 52 is out of coincidence with the plane of separation of the cap from the rod proper. While the openings 88 might be placed on the rod proper side of the plane of. separation, I have located the openings 88 as shown so as to enablethe bearing to be more readily taken up in service. Thus in service should the hearing become worn, the cap may be removed, placed in a vise and the. surfaces 81 filed without removing the connecting rod. Since the jagged edges 88 liebelow the surfaces 81, the filing of the surfaces 81 in .no way affects the bearing.

After the two surfaces 81 have been filed and the bearing is reassembled about its crank shaft,

the application of pressure on the screws or bolts 28 causes a. pressure on the bearing. Since the.

Babbitt metal is softer than the metal of the associated shaft, the bearing surface will conform itself to the shaft. Whatever excess bearing metal exists, as a result of filing the surfaces 81, will tend to cold flow into the openings 88 in sibie to use the same general principles of my invention and spin the babbitt into the bore of the connecting rod. Moreover, while .I have shownand described the openings 88 in the bearing body as being produced during the casting of the hearing, it will be appreciated that if desired these openings can be bored after the bearing metal has solidified. While this procedure would enable the accomplishment of the general principles of my invention, it would be more costly since additional machine operations would be required.

I have shown and described the openings as. extending completely through the bearing. This is, of course, not essential. All that is required is that the bearing'be sufliciently weakened topermit fracture, as described above. This could beaccomplished by extending the openings only part way through the bearing.

While I. have shown and described the'novel bearing construction of my invention it will be appreciated that various changes and modifica- This plane lies nsvmoo y be made tmrsimpsrtiouiuiy in the relation 0! ports, without departing t of my invention as set forth in claims. v

nstmction for a machine part wherein bearing body and a bearing surface, said bearing having to pair oi openings which extend through the bearing body without breaking the bearing surface, ssid openings being iocated approximateiy on opposite sides oi the bearing, said being broken approximately along the plane oi ssid openings to provide'two accurately an: bearing sections with each oi" the secfcidence with the plane of tions bems scouted to one of said plane of said break being h cyiders, the out of coin n.

2. A construction for a mac element wherein the element has an opening and the walls oi the opening have two a pieneseparating the eiementinto two parts which are normally secured other, a. be for said element bonded with the Waiis at said .opening,said bearing having a. body end an on nular' bearing surface, and having two was adiacent the pas-tings in the wells of the I); ins, and the bearing hart I-.--==- at least one opening offset with rest to 88m plane which body in such manner that .the bearing metal may cold flow into the opening when the beis adjusted to: wear.

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